The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-08
Cleaned From all Paris Of the steta.

-Pittsburg had a 100000 fire one day re.
Gently
AT Shenandoah, on New Years day, several
boys were fatally injured while coasting,
by the giving way of a scafTold at Nanticoke
recently five men were seriously injured.
The new locomotive work at Iamolxin. Della.
ware county, will soon be put in operation
j. r. Hoffer, editor and proprietor of the
Mohnt-Joy HERALD has been sued for libel
The wages of the pudders in the Lancaster
Rolling Mill have been increased 25 per cent.
Joseph Roger wholesale Confectiver. of
Lancaster, made an assignment Monday for
$4,000.
No, 1 furhance of the ReaSiing Iron Works
which has been idle for two years was blown I'm
on Monday.
Rev. James Reardon, prominent Lock
Haven divine, died suddenly at his home in that
place Saturday night.
Martin Trout, a repairman on the Penna.
Railroad, at Lancaster, was struck by an engine
and instantly killed.
AT the February election the taxpayers of
Shenandoah will vote for or against Increasing
the borough debt s25,Ooo
VILLAIN Slemmer, of the Montgomery Oil
Works, made assignment Monday. The record
liens against appreciate $500
Carnegie Brothers, of Plttsburg, will erect a
new stel rail mill at Braddock Work on the
structure viii be commenced in thirty days.
"A young couple aged respectively is and 16
were married at Shenandoah recently. Some
how OF other Shanardoah always manages to
take the lead.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company ex-
poets to begin the shipment of anthracite coal
from the Nantlcoke region to Philadelphia via
the Schuyllill Valley Railroad during March,
William White and Peter Boxer. ironworkers
In thePitttsburg Iron Works ndulged in pug
alistic contest one day recently and both were
badly disfgured, however White carried of the
palm.
"A number Of the section men In the yards of
the Reading Railroad Company at Reading, who
were receiving ninety cents "a day, have been dis
missed under the retrenchment policy of the
company.
Constable Howard Hensel, OF Drumore town.
ship, Lancaster county, shot strange colored
man at Arcadia, that county, recently, who re-
fused to surrender, and it is feared that the in
juries may prove fatal
-Pottsville was laid out in 1916. Schuylkill
county forms the 2lst judicial district Potts
vile is one OF fourteen lettercarrier post Offices
In the State. Schuylklll county was formed on
March II, 1911, from part OF Berks and North
ampton. Square miles, 80; acres. 537 600.
john Williams, of NOrrist6wn, who Is con.
demned to die on the 18th instant in an inter
view with Rev. Randall, Friday, remarked, "that
no day in the remainder of his life will be so
welcomcas the last There are only three fu-
lures before me-imprlsOnment for life In the
company of criminals, confinement for life among
the insane and death. prefer to die" he con-
cluded.
Trouble has occurred Mt the Pleasant Valley
mine, Luzerne county, by an effort to run the
mine with blacklegs Hungarans and other
"scabs." The latter were attacked Saturday
morning while going to work. The men Of the
colliery recently demanded to he paid 7uis cents
ton, and the company retaliated by levying
new impositiOns
oh Friday last on ARRAY occurred at Fred:
ericksburg, hamlet near Hollidaysburg, which
may culminate in murder A party of men and
boys went into the forest to have chOpping
frolic. As usual on such occurrences there was
plenty of free whisky. Two young men. James
Lingenfelter and Jacob DObson, while rolling
log, got into dispute and Dohsoh drew knife
and struck l,lngenielter In the back with the
above result sf
Lieutenant Colonel James F. Ramsey, of
Danyille, died saturday afternoon. Col Ramsey
entered lllt Nilf as captain Ol NNn IfnnSNlNNila
Volunteers and came out as lieutenant colonel OF
the 1Sfth. lie was buried Tuesday,
-WhCn we warm ourselves at bright coal
fire we not always think Of the toll and danger
incurred 10y those who have given us this Gem
tort. The perils Of mining are tragicaly Illus
tratcd by the fact that in this State within a
year five stalwart brothers, the support of an
aged father and mother, have been Killed. Such
was the fate of the kilyer brothers at NantcOke !
four OF whom were b,lriCd alive last December
while the last of the five was crushed to dealt,
on Monday night But men must work, and
women must weep.